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Or memristor. By now we were supposed to have all memristor storage. At least Intel is still working on bringing it to market: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2

Or memristor. By now we were supposed to have all memristor storage. At least Intel is still working on bringing it to market: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/10/hp-and-sandisk-join-forces-to-finally-bring-memristor-like-tech-to-market/ http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/10/hp-and-sandisk-join-f... I guess they're calling it "3D XPoint" now, which is a shame because memristor has such a cool retro-future sound to it. 3D XPoint sounds like what a bunch of bored marketing execs would whip up over a short lunch. While I'm at it, what ever happened to 3D printing? It was supposed to change everything, except its expensive and everything it makes looks like piled spaghetti. The resin/liquid based printing never took off and the few that did were troublesome and crazy expensive for materials. Or that quantum computer that company was selling, except it was huge and cooled with liquid nitrogen and no one could prove it was doing quantum anything. I'm also skeptical of the new VR fad. Yeah FPS addicts will probably love it, but grandpa and grandma aren't putting giant tissue boxes on their faces to watch a movie or skype with the grandkids. All the cool stuff from just a year or two ago are either dying, forever in the "we're working on it" stage, or were just vaporware. Nano hype has been here from the 80s and, unsurprisingly, has gone nowhere.

Retra 11y ago
You're the grandpa or grandma in the story of VR.
- drzaiusapelord 11y ago
  Maybe, but you would have said the same thing when I was skeptical of practical gaming applications of the Kinect. Now, its not even bundled with the Xbox and pretty much dead. Nintendo can't sell motion games anymore either. Four years ago this all would have been unheard of. Be careful about buying into hype, grandson.
  - Retra 11y ago
    I'm not buying into hype, I'm simply pointing out that if your grandparents aren't willing to do something, that doesn't mean you won't be willing to do it. We're not talking about an age-dependency, but a culture-dependency. I couldn't care less about commercial VR.
hga 11y ago
Actually, Intel has been almost totally opaque about what 3D XPoint is, except it's not a phase change media like that is used in optical disks, and per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10366907 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10366907 "We learned that 3D XPoint used a bulk material property change (rather than a stored charge) to address each cell."
gene-h 11y ago
3d printing has been around since the 90s, but just recently did the public start to hear about it. It didn't change everything, but now 3d printers are affordable for hobbyists. Aviation companies are using it to make weird ultra-light parts for that can't be made any other way, but save huge money on fuel costs. Various companies are using it to make low production runs of widgets directly because it's not worth the cost of injection molding/CNC machining. The whole industry is about to be disrupted though. HP has a new machine coming out in 2016 that does the same thing as industrial 3d printers except faster, cheaper, and in color. They have probably made a bunch of 3d printing processes obsolete. These machines might be fast and cheap enough to put in every kinkos in the country to locally produce moderate value plastic stuff(action figures, keychains, overpriced as seen on TV products), offer customized products(3d selfies, your face on an action figure), or consumer 3d printing. In short, big companies are starting to get into the 3d printing game. The days of kickstarter 3d printers and 3d printers made by a bunch of guys in a garage are over.

Retra 11y ago

You're the grandpa or grandma in the story of VR.

drzaiusapelord 11y ago
Maybe, but you would have said the same thing when I was skeptical of practical gaming applications of the Kinect. Now, its not even bundled with the Xbox and pretty much dead. Nintendo can't sell motion games anymore either. Four years ago this all would have been unheard of. Be careful about buying into hype, grandson.
- Retra 11y ago
  I'm not buying into hype, I'm simply pointing out that if your grandparents aren't willing to do something, that doesn't mean you won't be willing to do it. We're not talking about an age-dependency, but a culture-dependency. I couldn't care less about commercial VR.

hga 11y ago

Actually, Intel has been almost totally opaque about what 3D XPoint is, except it's not a phase change media like that is used in optical disks, and per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10366907 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10366907 "We learned that 3D XPoint used a bulk material property change (rather than a stored charge) to address each cell."

gene-h 11y ago

3d printing has been around since the 90s, but just recently did the public start to hear about it. It didn't change everything, but now 3d printers are affordable for hobbyists. Aviation companies are using it to make weird ultra-light parts for that can't be made any other way, but save huge money on fuel costs. Various companies are using it to make low production runs of widgets directly because it's not worth the cost of injection molding/CNC machining. The whole industry is about to be disrupted though. HP has a new machine coming out in 2016 that does the same thing as industrial 3d printers except faster, cheaper, and in color. They have probably made a bunch of 3d printing processes obsolete. These machines might be fast and cheap enough to put in every kinkos in the country to locally produce moderate value plastic stuff(action figures, keychains, overpriced as seen on TV products), offer customized products(3d selfies, your face on an action figure), or consumer 3d printing. In short, big companies are starting to get into the 3d printing game. The days of kickstarter 3d printers and 3d printers made by a bunch of guys in a garage are over.